Making Trousers for Men & Women A Multimedia Sewing by David

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Clip here Clip the pocketing fabric just below the pocket mouth. Topstitch the mouth edge. The facing is zigzag-stitched in place, and the front side seams are aligned. indd 53 4/13/09 1:32:35 PM (RAY) US_Text Job:03-10647 Title:CPI-Making Trousers For Men & Women 04-50865(221) #175 Dtp:201(P) Page:53 LEATHER PIPING Leather is a popular piping choice, but Ultrasuede or other synthetics would work just as well. Okay, let’s make another on-seam pocket, this time adding flat (not corded) piping to the pocket mouth.

5 cm) wide, aiming for a scant (slightly smaller than) ¼-inch (6 mm) piping. Leather glues well, so I used ordinary glue stick to hold the piping together while I folded each strip in half lengthwise, with wrong sides together. B. From WRONG SIDE, and without cutting piping, clip pants as shown, to each end of stitching. A. Postion piping along seamline, fold toward pants, then stitch from dot to dot through center of piping. Fusible interfacing 54 Before stitching, I fused a stabilizing strip of interfacing along the pocket mouth on the wrong side of the pants.

Indd 45 45 4/9/09 6:38:27 PM (RAY) US_Text Job:03-10647 Title:CPI-Making Trousers For Men & Women 04-AC50865 #175 Dtp:221(P) Page:45 ADDING A CUT-ON WAISTBAND STAYING THE FORK If you want a cut-on waistband, all you have to do is trace the top edges of your front and back pattern pieces. 8 cm] would do nicely, too). Then draw lines straight down to the old waistline. “Straight down” means perpendicular to the waist edge. In front, this will be parallel to the grain line of the pattern piece; in back, it won’t be.